www.WirelessFederation.com/news: When half of the world is still struggling to provide 3G services to its people, Sweden, is ready fly high on the 4G services. TeliaSonera, Sweden’s leading telecom operator, announced the launch of its commercial LTE services, a fourth generation mobile technology offering blazing fast Internet access to wireless devices.

LTE provides a data speed of 100Mbits/second which is 10 times faster than existing 3G services. Currently the service is available in Swiss capital Stockholm, Oslo, the Nordic capital and will expand to over 25 cities over the course of 2010. The targets of the service are the users of data extensive applications like live video streaming, video conferencing and online gaming.

Since most of the devices are not compatible with LTE, which is currently poorly supported in terms of hardware availability, the initial costumers will have to face the trouble. To deal with the problem, TeliaSonera, has decided to provide special 4G modems to the users in order to use their devices whilst they are under 4G coverage.

Currently, the service is accessible only through the aforementioned 4G modem.